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Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft using ‘science fiction… magic… brilliant…’ Neuralink brain implant — ‘I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed’

Noble has been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a spinal cord injury in 2016.

The Immortality Thief: How Toxins Shorten Life and How to Fight Back with Glutathione, TPE & Beyond

You are invited to presentations by “The Immortality Thief: How Toxins Shorten Life — and How to Fight Back with Glutathione, TPE & Beyond.” Bill Faloon will also give an update on Age Reversal presentation. — March 26, 2026” Our doors open at 6:00 PM with the main event at 7:00 PM Live in Person AND in Zoom and YouTube Livestream Afterwards, enjoy a 5 star banquet and conversations with members on Health and Super Longevity.

Biohacks & Brain Mods

Biohacks and brain implants are coming fast. From memory upgrades to neural meshes, how will implant culture reshape identity, economics, and civilization itself?

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Watch my exclusive video Lazarus Protocols: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur–… out Tech Alter: https://nebula.tv/techaltar?ref=isaac… and Day Pass: https://nebula.tv/daypass?ref=isaacar… 🛒 SFIA Merchandise: https://isaac-arthur-shop.fourthwall… 🌐 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net ❤️ Support us on Patreon: / isaacarthur ⭐ Support us on Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/isaac-a… 👥 Facebook Group: / 1,583,992,725,237,264 📣 Reddit Community: / isaacarthur 🐦 Follow on Twitter / X: / isaac_a_arthur 💬 SFIA Discord Server: / discord Credits: Biohacks & Brain Mods — The Coming Age of Implant Culture Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Edited by: Chris Gray & Donagh Broderick Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:28 The First Layer – The Implants Already Here 3:08 The Early Adoption Phase – Niche Enhancements 5:27 Safety vs Freedom 8:25 Implant Economics 14:31 The Social Shift – The Rise of Implant Culture 20:04 Minds in Motion – Cognitive Architecture as a Design Space 21:50 Implant Maximalism – Full-Stack Upgrades 23:03 Nebula 24:09 Post-Implant Society – Upgrades as Life Stages 25:40 The Far Horizon – When Implants Become Civilization.
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Credits:
Biohacks & Brain Mods — The Coming Age of Implant Culture.
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
Edited by: Chris Gray & Donagh Broderick.
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images.

Chapters.
0:00 Intro.
1:28 The First Layer – The Implants Already Here.
3:08 The Early Adoption Phase – Niche Enhancements.
5:27 Safety vs Freedom.
8:25 Implant Economics.
14:31 The Social Shift – The Rise of Implant Culture.
20:04 Minds in Motion – Cognitive Architecture as a Design Space.
21:50 Implant Maximalism – Full-Stack Upgrades.
23:03 Nebula.
24:09 Post-Implant Society – Upgrades as Life Stages.
25:40 The Far Horizon – When Implants Become Civilization.

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How a One-in-a-Billion Mistake Made the Universe Possible

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At one-one-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, the great annihilation event should have wiped out all matter, leaving a universe of only radiation. Why still don’t know why any matter survived. Well, a new finding from the LHC brings us one step closer to understanding why there’s something rather than nothing.

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Adversarial AI reveals mechanisms and treatments for disorders of consciousness

Researchers led by UCLA have developed an adversarial AI framework that may help explain how consciousness breaks down after brain injury — and how it might one day be restored. Published in Nature Neuroscience, the study used deep neural networks trained on more than 680,000 neuroelectrophysiology samples and validated findings across 565 patients, healthy volunteers, and animals. The model identified specific circuit-level disruptions linked to disorders of consciousness, including the basal ganglia indirect pathway and altered inhibitory cortical wiring.

What makes this so important is that it pushes consciousness research closer to mechanism. Instead of only asking what consciousness is, this kind of work asks: what specific brain circuitry fails when consciousness is lost, and can that failure be targeted? The study also identified high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus as a promising intervention, supported by human electrophysiological data. This is the kind of neuroscience that makes consciousness feel less like pure philosophy — and more like something we may eventually model, test, and repair.

Abstract: Nature Neuroscience Adversarial AI reveals mechanisms and treatments for disorders of consciousness.


Toker et al. present an AI framework that identifies mechanisms of consciousness. The model predicts new drivers of unconsciousness and identifies subthalamic nucleus stimulation as a potential therapy for disorders of consciousness.

Phagocytosis and neuroinflammation: orchestrating central nervous system homeostasis, repair, and the resolution of inflammation

Brain phagocytosis and neuroinflammation.

Phagocytes in the central nervous system (CNS), including astrocytes, microglia, and macrophages, shape development and homeostasis by pruning synapses and removing apoptotic debris.

Phagocytosis is mediated by various ligand–receptor dyads and signaling pathways, enabling CNS phagocytes to respond to neuroimmune shifts across the lifespan and during pathology.

Phagocytosis pathways regulate recovery in various models of CNS pathology, including multiple sclerosis, CNS injury, ischemic stroke, and age-associated neurodegeneration.

Phagocytosis pathways are intimately integrated with the inflammatory cell state and remove viable cells in pathology-adjacent tissue, highlighting the complexity of targeting these systems.

To maximize benefit and minimize off target damage, new phagocytic-based approaches should optimize drug delivery timing and location, tailored to each CNS pathology. sciencenewshighlights ScienceMission https://sciencemission.com/resolution-of-inflammation


Building a National Quantum Strategy

Andrea Damascelli has always been fascinated by light. He uses it to probe materials on an atomic level, and his observations have contributed to the condensed-matter community’s understanding of high-temperature superconductors and quantum materials. His research group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) uses time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, an intricate technique that maps the energy and velocity of electrons as they propagate through materials.

In 2015, Damascelli spearheaded efforts that brought one of the first Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) grants to UBC’s Quantum Matter Institute. As the institute’s scientific director, he found himself at the helm of a full-blown research center—hiring faculty, expanding staff, and upgrading facilities. A few months later, he received a special request from Canada’s National Research Council: join leaders from across Canada’s quantum ecosystem to advise on a strategy for growing the country’s quantum community as a whole.

Physics Magazine chatted with Damascelli as he looked back on the beginning of Canada’s first National Quantum Strategy (NQS) and looked forward to developing a self-sustaining quantum research and training powerhouse.

Organocatalytic strategy provides a metal-free route to antiviral candidates

A research team led by Prof. Sun Jianwei has achieved an advancement in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry by developing an air-stable chiral phosphine-catalyzed enantioselective approach to synthesize enantioenriched S(IV)-stereogenic vinyl sulfinamides—an under-explored class of organosulfur compounds with promising antiviral activity.

The importance of chiral-at-sulfur compounds in drug discovery and organic synthesis is indisputable. More than a quarter of top-selling small molecule pharmaceuticals contain sulfur atoms, and chiral sulfinamides bearing S(IV) chirality are key building blocks for medicinal chemistry, asymmetric synthesis auxiliaries, and catalytic ligands. However, current methods to access enantioenriched sulfinamides rely on transition metal catalysis with organometallic nucleophiles, and efficient organocatalytic strategies have long remained unexplored, creating a critical gap in synthetic chemistry for this valuable chemical space.

To address this challenge, Prof. Sun’s team published a study in Nature Chemistry detailing the design and synthesis of a novel C₂-symmetric chiral phosphine catalyst—QianPhos—derived from the SPHENOL chiral skeleton. This custom catalyst exhibits extraordinary air stability and structural rigidity, which enables highly chemo-, enantio-, and diastereoselective C−S bond formation via a [3+2] annulation between Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) esters and sulfinylamines.

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